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The Bayonne Board of Education (BBOED) held a meeting on Monday, December 19, less than a week after an emergency meeting to address a $2 million budget deficit in the district’s operating budget. At that meeting, the board moved to fill the budget gap with Regular Operating District (ROD) grant funds, but this time, questions …

Anyone trying to predict what might happen in politics in 2016 could not possibly have foreseen the strange and sometimes miraculous events that took place over the past year. With the aftermath of Bridgegate trailing behind him like tin cans behind a car, Gov. Christopher Christie tried and failed to win the Republican presidential nomination. …

Politics in 2016 had some strange twists

Funeral services took place Dec. 28 for Estelle M. Glaeser, 80 of Secaucus. She passed away Dec. 22 at the Sunrise Senior Living Center in East Brunswick. Born in Secaucus to the late Fredrick and Evelyn (Day) Vogel, Estelle was a lifelong resident. Estelle taught at the Clarendon School and was a graduate of the …

A mass of Christian burial took place Dec. 28 for Sister Maureen Killough, 82, of Jersey City, formerly Sister Rose Michael, a Sister of Charity of Saint Elizabeth. She died Dec. 21at the Villa at Florham Park. Sister Maureen was born in Jersey City, the daughter of Walter and Julia Donnelly Killough, and entered the …

Arrests of Jersey City police on alleged corruption appear imminent In a probe initiated by Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and Public Safety Director James Shea, as many as a dozen Jersey City police officers may been arrested in connection with an alleged private security scheme. Although rumored for months, the arrests appear imminent, according …

BAYONNE – Water rates in Bayonne are scheduled to rise 3.5 percent in January of 2017, consistent with projections made by the Municipal Utilities Authority in 2015. That’s on top of a 13.25 percent rate increase last year. The 3.5 percent increase amounts to a five-cent increase per 100 gallons, or an average monthly increase …

JERSEY CITY – Two police officers were injured after their patrol car was struck on Route 1&9 near Duncan Avenue on Dec. 28. According to a report, a police officer was in pursuit of another vehicle when a white Mercedes hit the cruiser injuring two officers. Mark Rabson, spokesperson for Jersey City Medical Center, said …

WEST NEW YORK — West New York Mayor Dr. Felix Roque was found not guilty on Dec. 21 of a charge that he took kickbacks to refer patients to an MRI Lab. Roque, 60, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Cuba, said he believed in the American legal system. “Had this trial been in Cuba, …